bacterial food poisoning

bac·te·ri·al food poi·son·ing

a term commonly used to refer to conditions limited to enteritis or gastroenteritis (excluding the enteric fevers and the dysenteries) caused by bacterial multiplication itself or by a soluble bacterial exotoxin.

bacterial food poisoning

a toxic condition resulting from the ingestion of food contaminated by certain bacteria. Acute infectious gastroenteritis caused by various species of Salmonella is characterized by fever, chills, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and general discomfort beginning 8 to 48 hours after ingestion and continuing for several days. Similar symptoms caused by Staphylococcus, usually S. aureus, appear much sooner and rarely last more than a few hours. Food poisoning caused by the neurotoxin of Clostridium botulinum is characterized by GI symptoms, disturbances of vision, weakness or paralysis of muscles, and, in severe cases, respiratory failure. See also botulism.

bac·te·ri·al food poi·son·ing

(bak-tēr'ē-ăl fūd poy'zŏn-ing)

A term commonly used to refer to conditions limited to enteritis or gastroenteritis (excluding the enteric fevers and the dysenteries) caused by bacterial multiplication itself or by a soluble bacterial exotoxin.

bac·te·ri·al food poi·son·ing

(bak-tēr'ē-ăl fūd poy'zŏn-ing)

Term commonly used to refer to conditions limited to enteritis or gastroenteritis (excluding the enteric fevers and the dysenteries) caused by bacterial multiplication itself or by a soluble bacterial exotoxin.

a serious disease of salmonid cultures characterized by granuloma in the kidney and spleen, and extensive caseation of muscles. The disease is chronic and causes heavy losses. The cause appears to be a minute gram-positive coccobacillus Renibacterium salmoninarum.

bacterial overgrowth

a syndrome of malabsorption causing chronic or recurrent diarrhea in dogs. Believed to be due to the presence in the small intestine of an abnormally large population of Clostridium spp. and other enteric bacteria normally found in the colon.

Tomatoes have been identified as the source of the outbreak of this form of bacterial food poisoning among people who attended the games as well as 12 visitors to the theme park who did not attend the games.

Dr Arora said washing hands frequently and avoiding eating in places where hygiene could be compromised were the best safeguards but added that between 70 to 80 per cent of bacterial food poisoning cases could be self-treated.

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